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• Fast
• Elegant example of beautiful sleek design
• Lightweight and easy to carry around
• All your media is in one place, tons of applications
• Comfortable reading, backlit display at night
• Crisp, wide and easy to use screen
• Incredible graphics
• 10 hours battery life
• Reasonable replacement of a netbook for a casual user

Apple iPad Tablet (64GB, Wifi + 3G)

iPad Tablet is the best way to experience the web, email, video, and photos. All of the built-in applications on iPad were designed from the ground up to take advantage of the large Multi-Touch screen and superior capabilities of iPad. They work in any orientation. So you can do things with these applications that you can’t do on any other device. A large, high-resolution LED-backlit IPS display. An incredibly responsive Multi-Touch screen. An amazingly powerful Apple-designed chip. All in a design that’s thin and light enough to take anywhere. iPad isn’t just the best device of its kind. It’s a whole new kind of device. 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology, 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi). Wireless and cellular 3G, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology. Capacity: 64GB flash drive.

The iPad is an elegant example of great design. It is thin, but it is sturdy. It is useful in many ways, but it is simple in its design with a minimal numbers of controls.

The screen is framed by a one-inch black border. If you hold the iPad vertically, you can see the Home button on the bottom. The button will be familiar to iPhone and iPod touch users.

Videos look excellent on the iPad. It supports H.264 up to 720p at 30 frames per second and MPEG-4. There is a special application for viewing YouTube videos. You may also download applications for viewing certain television programms. Watching ABC television shows is a great experience on the iPad.

The front part of the iPad looks like a giant iPod touch, while the back is a classy brushed aluminum rather than the shiny back of the iPod touch.

The top of the iPad has one single button, which is an on/off or sleep/wake slider switch on the left. On the right you see the standard headphone jack. Although the much cheaper iPod touch comes with headphones, they are not included with the iPad. The hole for the microphone is next to the headphone jack.

The right side of the iPad holds the iPad’s only other controls. On the right is a useful screen rotation lock, which keeps the screen from rotating when you do not want it to, like when you are lying in bed. Next to the rotation lock is the up/down volume rocker.

iPad Applications Almost all of Apple 150,000 current applications work on the iPad. As s result, there is no lack of content for the iPad. Ordinary iPhone applications appear in a small box on the iPad screen.

Many of the iPhone applications are being customized to run on the iPad, and special iPad only applications are just starting to appear. These applications are especially appealing and it seems that these applications are what will make the iPad a success. Games that take full advantage of the iPad are remarkable.

Apple made several of their Mac programs available for the iPad. Keynote, Pages, and Numbers are available for USD 9.99 each. The presentations, word processing documents, and spread sheets that you create with these programs can be transferred to your computer using iTunes and they can be converted to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel format.

Entertainment on iPad Newspapers and magazines will definitely be a big draw for the iPad in the future. Currently, applications like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today are ample – and very readable – on the iPad.

If you get an iPad or know someone who has one, download the Paris Match app, which is currently free. It is in French, but even if you don’t know the language, it is a perfect example of what the iPad can do for a newspaper or magazine. It uses full screen photographs, audio, video, and wonderful transitions, plus a great interface that will have your fingers tapping and your eyes fully entertained. This is the real power of the iPad.

The Marvel comic-book app also was impressive. It was wildly vivid and had great navigation. Another app that seems good is Alice in Wonderland, which features little animations peppered throughout the pages of the book. This is just a little taste of what is sure to be done for the iPad in the future. This was the app for Alice in Wonderland, rather than the book itself. As we shall see a little later, however, reading books on the iPad is another adventure.

Photos on iPad The Photos app on the iPad is wonderful. Your albums appear as a pile of photos. Just pinch and expand a pile and each photo becomes a thumbnail. Touch a thumbnail and it looks gorgeous as a full-screen photo. Touch the bottom of the photo and you can see a small strip of all the photos. Or just swipe you finger across that photo to get to the next one. You can easily email the photo or use it as wallpaper. In three or four presses, you can also create a slideshow complete with music and transitions. There is a nice selection of slideshow music, and the Origami transition is excellent. Turn on a slide show like this and the iPad turns into a digital picture frame.

Emailing on iPad Email on the iPad is essentially the same as using email on the iPhone or iPod Touch. However, Apple takes advantage of the larger amount of screen real estate on the iPad to show each piece of mail in a dual frame model. There is excellent support for mail services including MobileMe, Google Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, and AOL, along with most industry-standard IMAP and POP email systems.

Apple did a nice job of integrating their Mail, Photos, and iWorks applications. When using the iPad’s email program, it is possible to view almost all attachments including Word and Excel documents. If you purchase Pages and/or Numbers, the iPad will automatically convert these documents. After you edit the documents, you can email it directly from the document. When you save an attached photo, it is automatically saved in an album.

When in the email program, the iPad converts URLs, email addresses and street addresses to links, so that you can just click to open the appropriate app like contacts, safari, or maps.

Despite the fact that the email program lacks some things like a common inbox, the ability to create local folders, and rules for auto-sorting messages, it is rather capable.

Apple is known for its outstanding presentation and playing of audio and, as expected, it carries this over to the iPad. The only thing absent is the Cover Flow display of sweepable album covers and titles.

The iPad’s iPod has a large selection of EQ settings including electronic, hip hop, jazz, pop, rock, and spoken word and many more. The iPad speaker can be quite loud so you can actually use it as a bedside audio player. The iPad plays in stereo. Obviously with the speakers so close together it is not perfect, but none of the audio is lost, so it sounds pretty good.

iPad is a Book Reader (including Kindle) The iPad has been widely promoted as an eBook reader. As you may expect, this is done as an app. When you start the iBook app, you are presented with your books on a wooden bookshelf.

Reading a book on the iPad is enjoyable. Using the iPad accelerometer, you can view the book either horizontally or vertically. Not only can you increase the size of the text, however you can choose to display it in several different fonts. You simply swipe your finger to turn the page and you actually see the page turning.

Text is crisp and clear on the iPad, but the e-Ink technology used by other digital reading devices like the Kindle is easier on the eyes. However, the iPad has an ambient light sensor and also offers the ability to dim the brightness, so you may be able to adjust the screen to suit your eyes.
The iPad also has some other nice features for book reading. Tap any word and you get a definition, the chance to bookmark your spot, or to look up that word on Google or Wikipedia.

The iPad supports the popular ePub digital book format. If you download ePub books to your computer you can drag them into iTunes and sync with the iPad, as long as they are unprotected. There is also a protected ePub format. That is what Apple uses for their bookstore. Books purchased from the Apple store can only be read on the iPad.

There is an application available that lets you read Kindle books on the iPad. Like the iPhone app, it will even keep track of where you have left off reading between the two devices.

Surfing the web Surfing the web is a much more pleasant experience on the iPad than it is on an iPhone or any other smart phone. The larger screen makes viewing easier of the eyes and although the iPad supports panning and zooming just as it does on the iPhone, you do not have to use it as much. As with other Apple devices, the iPad does not play Flash videos. Apple says Flash is buggy and insecure but not having it really limits your surfing. The lack of Flash is quite noticeable on a device like this that you are bound to use for surfing more than the smaller iPhone. During our review time we wanted to watch the Masters Golf Tournament on our iPad and we disappointed to find that every website we tried used flash.

Because of the large screen on the iPad, the on-screen keyboard is more useable than the ones often found on smart phones. In portrait view, the keyboard is still quite small, but in landscape mode, it is close to the spacing of a normal keyboard. Although touch typing is possible, it will definitely take some practice. The iPads auto-correction and auto-suggestion features helps a lot.

With all the touching on such a big screen, fingerprints are an unavoidable problem on the iPad. Luckily, they are not noticeable when you the screen is on, except in sunlight. However, they are quite noticeable, when the screen is off. The iPad has the same oleophobic (oil-resistant) coating as the iPhone, so the fingerprints wipe off quite easily. You may, however, want to include a cleaning cloth in your budget for the iPad, since none is included with the device.

Technical Details

• Capacity 64GB
• Includes Wifi + 3G
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches ; 1.6 pounds
• Rated Charge (normal use): 10 hours

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